Lying With Charts: WSJ Edition

May 21, 2008

Zubin Jelveh submits:

In an Op-Ed in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, David Ranson of H.C. Wainwright puts forth this chart showing that overall tax revenues as a percentage of GDP have remained remarkably stable even as the top marginal tax rate has fallen:

(FYI, Hauser’s Law refers to Kurt Hauser, who Ranson says first identified this phenomenon in 1993.)


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Lying With Charts: WSJ Edition

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